Feed mechanism for bottle-sealing machines.



A. CALLESON. FEED MECHANISM FOR BOTTLE SEALING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24, 1912.

1 O82,189, Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

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FEED MECHANISM FOR BOTTLE SEALING MACHINES.

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ATTORNEY- A. GALLESON. FEED MECHANISM FOR BOTTLE SEALING MACHINES.

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FEED MECHANISM FOR BOTTLE-SEALING MACHINES.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed August 2t, 1912. Serial No. 716,828.

To all whom 2'15 may concern Be it known that 1, Aims CALLnsoN, a citizenv of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed Mechanisms for Bottle-Sealing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle capping machines or the like in which the bottles to be sealed or capped or other parts to be operated upon are made to pass the means for operating thereon in succession under the influence of mechanical means. In mechanisms for effecting the feed of the bottles or other articles being operated upon past a sealing head or the like organism it is desirable to reduce the work of the attendant as far as possible simply to that of placing the articles on and removing them from the machine, to have the feeding operation proceed at a speed which will accord with any speed or rapidity of action at which it may be desired that the sealing means (or its equivalent) should operate, and to prevent jamming of the articles and the interruption of the continuity of the feed or the injury to the articles which results therefrom. The present invention aims to provide a feeding mechanism which shall as nearly as possible perfectly fulfil the desiderat-a thus outlined.

The invention is illustrated herein in its preferred form, Figure 1 showing a bottle sealing machine, mainly in vertical central section, provided with the improved mechanism; Fig. 2 being a plan of the said mechanism, the pillar of the superstructure of the machine and a certain shaft 9 appearing in section; Fig. 3, a transverse substantially central sectional View of the table of the machine; Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, sectional views on substantially the line 3 y and zz, respectively, of Fig. 2; Fig. 6, a plan view on a larger scale of certain parts appearing in Figs. 4 and-5; Fig. 7 and Fig. 8, detail views of parts appearing in Fig. 6; and Fig. 9 a detail View of the bottle shunting device 4.

Bolted to the base a of a bottle sealing machine having a table 5 provided with the communicating circular openings 0 and (Z is a pillar or pedestal e concentric'with and received in the opening 0 and-affording support for a head f carrying means whereby a carrier 25, oscillatory and vertically reciprocatory on said pillar, is given its 0scilla-ting movements and whereby said carrier, through a rotary shaft 9 carrying a peripherally grooved cam 30 in whose groove travels a roller 29 on the carrier, is reciprocated. The carrier has projecting forwardly therefrom the sealing means 49. It is unnecessary further to describe the superstructure of the bottle-sealing machine in connection with which the invention is herein illustrated than to observe thatthe resultant of the movements of the means 49, which partakes of the up and down and laterally oscillating movements of the carrier, is a motion in which said means in each cycle moves to the left (viewed from the front) in a relatively depressed position and to the right, elevated, the movement thereof to the left being the working or sealapplying stroke and the movement to the right the return stroke. The bottles are fed or advanced in a continuous (non-intermittent) fashion past and under the sealing means, which in each cycle advances with one or more bottles as it seals them, then rises, returns and'falls to receive and operate on and advance with the next bottle or bottle group. The novel features of the improved bottle-sealing machine in conncction with which I have illustrated my present invention are reserved for a divisional application to be filed by me.

Surrounding the pillar the base has the circular upstanding flange i on which rotates the turret which supports the bottles while being sealed and which comprises the disk 7', fitted over said flange 2' and provided with elastic pads or bottle-seats k, and the ring Z suitably clamped about an upstanding part of disk j and formed with upper and lower series of radial projections 17?. affording pockets between them for the bottles. The projections of one series vertically coincide with those of the other, and each has its forward concave side forming a rather sharp angle or point m with its rearward convex side (Figs. 2 and 6). The turret is rotated continuously from shaft 9 through a pinion n thereon, an internal gear 0 on the turret and a transmission pinion p ournaled on the fixed stud p and meshing with pinion n and gear 0.

Pivoted to the under side of the table at g and spanning opening a? is the lever r whose free end moves in a guide s and is pressed toward the turret by a-springt interposed between said lever and a stop u. Onan upstanding post '0 on' said lever and loosely fitting opening 03 is journaled the disk w, of less diameter than disk 9' with which it peripherally contacts and by which it is driven, disk w being'faced with a thin circular plate w superimposed thereon and of such diameter as to overlap disk 7'. Sup ported partly by the hub of disk .11) and receiving in its boss y the post '11 is a plate a which at the front rests on two blocks 2 and 3, the former of which is pivoted to movein a horizontal plane; Boss 3 forms abearin for the oscillatory arm 4 normally held Y against a stop 5 (Fig. 7) by the spring 6 and having its free end forked and forming a bearing for an arbor 7 having fixed thereto the-upper and lower rollers 8 and, within its fork, the inion 9 engaging the rack 10 pivoted to p ate .2. Pivoted to the arm and extending forwardly therefrom is the bottleguide 11 normally held in about the position shown in Fig. 2 by a spring 12 interposed between said guide and a stop 13 and coiled about a rod 14, pivoted to said guide. Plate 2 is shaped so as to leave disk w exposed at the right, back and left, so that the bottles may be placed on said disk and carried around to the turret, and it has an upstanding wall15 forming a curved bottle guideway with the curved wall 16, suitably attached to the table. Near the turret wall 16 is slightlyrecessed,-as at 17, and opposite this recess wall 15 has a defiector lS attached thereto by the dove-tailed tongue-and-groove connection shown in Figs. 7 and 8, or otherwise removably, so that it may be detached and another of different size substituted. To a housing 19 covering the back of the turret is pivoted to move in a horizontal plane the arm 20 normally pressed back to the limit as possible to the bottle bein afforded by its stop 21 by the spring-pressed plug 22. the spring which presses the plug be ng sufficiently weak so that the arm will yield to the advancing bottles.

The operation of this mechanism is as follows: Bottles (A, Figs. 2 and 6) placed on disk 10 are carried around-and crowded forward thereby successively through that portion of the guideway which, at recess 17 and deflector 18. is deflected toward the turret and which (because a deflector 18 of a size to suit the size of the bottles being sealed is used), acts to crowd each bottle laterally into a position on the disk-w as favorable subsequently caught and advanced by pro ections of the turret. As each bottle passes forward arm 20 is pushed aside thereby, swinging back, as the bottle clears it, either against the next bottle (if within reach) or to the limit of its stop. The contemplated and normal condition is for the train of bottles and the series of pairs of projections m to assume an inte rmeshing relation to each other, because it is of course comparatively infrequent that a pair of the projections engage the bottle on what may be termed its dead center (i. 6., the part of the bottle through which passes a radius of disk w that is coincident with a diameter-of the bottle) if they engage back of the dead-center the ideal relation is at once established, and if forward thereof the-bottle is simply rejected by these projections only to fall in behind them and be thereupon taken up by the next pair. If, perchance, the rojections engage a bottle on dead-center 1twould at this time in any event merely be shunted by them toward the side of the deflector '18 which is adjacent to said projections, at which position (marked B) the bottle has room. to'stand without being jammed, by the projections. Bottles brought into the forwarding influence of the projections are of course shunted by arm 1 fully into their seat-s (between airs of projections)-in the turret. Any ottle forced nto position B will, under the frictionalv action of disk w, work its way around rollers 8 sufficiently to be caught positively by some succeeding pair of projections, to be shunted into its seat in the turret in the same manner -of'projections and the arm 4 its release,

without crushing, will follow thus: Firstly, all the parts attached to lever 1* may yield therewith from the turret, and, secondly, the bottle and rollers 8 may roll upon each other (the rollers by turning on their axis affording a sliding or slipping seat for the bottles) and,- in the particular construction illustrated and described, being compelled to turn in the direct-ions indicated by the arrows in Fig. 6 (so as to move the bottle forward) because pinion 9 is turned by the rack as the bottle, under the push of the project-ions, moves arm 4 around its fulcrum. Arm 20 is provided simply to prevent bottles at the selecting or critical point, z. e., between the turret and the shunting arm 4, from being upset and so causing a am. After being carried around the front of the machine, meanwhile undergoing the sealing operation, the bottles are deflected off disk onto the table by the wall 23, to be removed from time to time by the attendant. 1

Havin thus fully described my invention, what I c aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member'having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, and

mechanism for feeding said parts into said to the pocketed side of said member slidable crossw'se of the pockets, substantially as describe I 2. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterallyof its path of advance, and mechanism for feeding said parts into said pockets including a shunting means for said parts having a seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member and normally free to revolve, substantially as described.

3. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, and

mechanism for feeding said parts into said pockets including a shunting means for said parts having the portion thereof adjacent to the pocketed side of said member slidable crosswise of the pockets, and means for causing sliding movement of said portion, substantially as described.

4. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, mechanism for feeding said parts into said pockets including a movable shunting means for said parts having a sliding seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member, and means for causing sliding movement of said seat upon movement of the shunting means, substantially as described.

5. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, and mechanism for feeding said parts into said pockets including a shunting means for said parts having a revoluble seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member, and means for causing rotary movement of said seat, substantially as described.

6. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, mechanism for feeding said parts into said ockets including a movable shunting means or said parts having a revoluble seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member, and means for causing rotary movement of said seat upon movement of the shunting. means, substantially as described.

7. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the partsto. be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets open ing laterally of its path of advance, and mechanism for feeding said parts into said pockets including a shunting means for said parts having a sliding seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member and ieldable from said member, substantially as escribed.

8.'In combination, a moving member for pockets including a shunt-ing means for said parts yieldable from said member and having a sliding seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member, and means for causing.

sliding movement of said seat, substantially as described.

10. In combination, a movin member for forwarding the parts to be a vanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, mechanism for feeding said parts into said pockets including'a movable shunting means for said parts yieldable from said member and having a sliding seat adjacent to the pocketed side of said member, andmeans for causing sliding movement of said seat upon move ment of the shunting means, substantially as described.

11. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, a suppor for said parts yieldable from sald membet, and a shunting means carried by said support andhaving its acting portion ad acent to the pocketed side of said member, substantially as described.

' 12. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its path of advance, a support for said parls yieldable from said member, and a shunting meanscarried by said support and having its acting portion adjacent to the pocketed side of said member and including a sliding seat to assume the contact of said parts, substantially as described.

13. In. combination, a moving member for fm'warding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets opening laterally of its'path of advance, a support for said parts yieldable from said member, and a shunting means carried by said support and having its acting portion adjacent to the pocketed side of said member and including a revoluble seat to assume the contact of said parts, substantially as described.

14. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced, said member having a succession of pockets open- "ing laterally of its path of advance, and a pivoted shunting means projecting toward the pocketed side of said member and having its free end yieldable therewith in substantially the direction of advance of said member, said means having a sliding seat adjacent to said member, substantially as described.

15. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced having a supporting surface for said parts extending lengthwise of its path of advance, a rotating feeding support for the parts to be advanced yieldable from said member, and means for shunting said parts from the support onto the supporting surface of said member, substantially as described.

16. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced having a supporting surface for said parts extending lengthwise of its path of advance and means for delivering, the parts to be advanced to said member including a rotating feeding support for said parts yieldable from said member and means for shunting the parts from the support onto the supporting surface of said member, substantially as described.

17. In combination, a moving member for forwarding the parts to be advanced having a supporting surface for said parts extending lengthwise of its path of advance,'a rotating feeding support for the parts to be advanced overlapping said surface and yieldable from said member, and means for shunting said parts from the support onto the supporting surface of said member, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AMOS CALLESON.

Witnesses:

W. D. C. Bones, F. H. Mosns. 

